William Braud’s research while affiliated with Sofia University and other places

To further the evolution of a socially-altruistic heart-centered intelligence and two-way telepathic awareness, hundreds of groups were facilitated internationally for forty years: i.e., E-Mag. (http://video.beyondthenet.com/connectioninstitute/Science_to_Sage.pdf) (Testimonials: https://connectioninstitute.org/PDF/Testimonials.pdf) How 'can' this five year ($27M) multimedia ‘partnership proposal’ to “De-Hypnotize Humanity” ensure that billions are informed by a commonly-sensed, heartfelt consciousness? A Lehman formula offers compensation for fundraising. (https://connectioninstitute.org/PDF/De_Hypnotizing.pdf) 1) A series of feature (e.g., https://connectioninstitute.org/PDF/For_the_HEART_of_GAIA_9-5-20.pdf) and documentary films (e.g., https://connectioninstitute.org/PDF/THE_WHOLE_IN_EVERYONE-Film_Outline.pdf) break ‘the fourth wall’ (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_wall), uniting viewing audiences with the cast on screen to share a wholly-embodied, somatic, telepathic experience, validated by twenty years of media research focused on how to ‘uplift’ viewing audiences through 'shared sensitivity’. 2) An ‘empirically tested’ 24/7 free-membership app online (available in multiple languages) by joining, or co-creating, their own gatherings. (https://connectioninstitute.org/PDF/Further%20Studies%20of%20Remote%20Attention.pdf) 3) In ‘our’ forty-five years, as well as Lynn McTaggart's "Power of Eight” research, this union with that which is greater than our 'selves' is causal of spontaneous remissions, when a group shares a sense of indivisible unity. 4) By explaining the physics of how a self/Self-organizing non-material consciousness re-creates what is physical, emotional, mental, soulful, and spiritual.(https://connectioninstitute.org/PDF/Solo_Interview_by_Jim.pdf) 5) This 107 page - illustrated - E-Magazine includes still more solutions. http://video.beyondthenet.com/connectioninstitute/Science_to_Sage.pdf) 6) This initiative is designed to be financially sustainable to thrive beyond our proposed five year timeline. (https://www.givesendgo.com/HumanConnectionInstitute?utm_source=sharelink&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_campaign=HumanConnectionInstitute) I founded (bio: https://connectioninstitute.org/PDF/BIO.pdf) the Human Connection Institute in 1990 (https://www.connectioninstitute.org/PDF/Mission_Statement.pdf) while learning to teach anyone interested how to recreate these experiences in-person, as well as online via webcam (for free), giving invited presentations on human interconnectedness and the Human Connection Project (https://connectioninstitute.org/Summary.html) at the University of Connecticut ('88/'89), the Association for Research and Enlightenment ('90), the United Nations ('92), World Business Academy ('93/'94), Duke University ('95), the Foundations of Mind conferences, U.C. Berkeley (2014/15), and ASCSI conference in Raleigh, NC (2018). I share a six year theoretical physics partnership with James E. Beichler, PhD co-creatively modeling a dimensionless mechanism within human consciousness; how point-centered processes generated all phenomena and the expansion of our universe, including a Self-organizing non-material consciousness, wherein its dimensional byproducts and measurements re-generate what is physical, emotional, mental, soulful, and spiritual. In all humility, ‘these are’ the breakthrough(s) we’ve all been hoping for. Jim and I worked ‘independently’ for forty years - each - before we met to collaborate on these realizations. Introductions, interviews, contributions, and collaborations are welcome. Wholeheartedly, Sperry Andrews ============== Founder/Codirector Human Connection Institute Tel: # 505-629-0700 (USA) ===================== Research Partner, CQ-i Consciousness Quotient Institute Bucharest, Romania ===================== Advisory Board Member Philosophy & Media-Arts Lifeboat Foundation ps: J. E. Beichler, PhD (2018). "Quantized Space-Time Structure: The 0-D point/twist Void co-creator of the continuum and single field" Unified Field Mechanics Ii: Formulations And Empirical Tests - Proceedings Of The Xth Symposium, World Scientific (https://connectioninstitute.org/PDF/Quantized_Space-Time.pdf) Sperry Andrews (2018) “Resolving the Three Great Mysteries: Consciousness, free will, and God" ASCSI Proceedings. "Aspects of Consciousness", Raleigh, NC, October. 2018 (https://connectioninstitute.org/PDF/Resolving_3_Mysteries.pdf) J.E.Beichler, PhD (2016) “The Emergence of Neurocosmology: Realizing the true nature of the 0-D point/ twist in both the evolution of consciousness and physics” Vigier 10 Symposium. (https://www.connectioninstitute.org/PDF/Neurocosmoloy%20of%200-D%20point-twist.pdf)

This chapter explores the concept of transpersonal education, the role of the educator, and process and practices that support transpersonal education at the school, classroom, and facilitator levels. The authors discuss the process, obstacles, and challenges of transpersonal education and make suggestions for the future. To understand the nature of transpersonal education, it is important to distinguish it from three other closely related but sufficiently different terms and concepts: transpersonal psychology, transformative education, and spirituality/spiritual education. The chapter also explores two cross-cultural approaches to education (one Eastern and one indigenous) as well as organizations and classrooms that fit well into the criteria of transpersonal education.

Exceptional human experiences (EHEs) are anomalous experiences that, if worked with sufficiently, can foster beneficial and transformative changes in the experiencer. This chapter explores the nature, accompaniments, and aftereffects of such experiences and focuses on the variety of ways in which their experiencing and their disclosure can benefit the experiencer's mental health and well-being. The EHEs treated here include primarily mystical and unitive, psychical, encounter, unusual death-related, and peak experiences. The possible mental health benefits are described in the contexts of the models and findings of theorists Rhea White (on their transformative potential and their useful role in establishing more life-potentiating self narratives), James Pennebaker and Ian Wickramasekera (on the health benefits of disclosing these types of experiences to others and even more fully to oneself), Tom Driver (on the value of "professing" such experiences), and the "positive psychology" of Barbara Fredrickson (how such experiences may broaden the experiencer's momentary thought and action patterns and allow the building of more enduring coping resources). The chapter addresses ways in which therapists, counselors, and other helping professionals might best work with persons reporting these experiences. Other chapter sections address possible reasons for the underreporting and underappreciation of EHEs, as well as some possible negative accompaniments and misunderstandings of such experiences.

Transpersonal psychology studies experiences in which one’s sense of identity; stage of development; state of consciousness; and ways of knowing, being, and doing can be expanded beyond those typically considered in conventional psychology. It addresses issues of spirituality, ego‐transcendence, wisdom, psychospiritual growth and development, personal and societal transformation, and wholeness. Its new forms of transpersonal inquiry similarly expand research praxis by extending the types of topics and questions that may be explored; the ways data can be collected, treated, and reported; the disciplines, time‐frames, and experiences that can inform the research project; and the ways the investigator’s own personal and spiritual nature and processes can enhance research. This article addresses ways in which transpersonal inquiry can supplement more established quantitative and qualitative research approaches in exploring workplace spirituality by including spiritually related practices of the researcher in the research enterprise and by its greater emphasis on values and transformation.

This article describes a holistic and transpersonal approach to higher education and presents the graduate psychology programs and practices of the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology (ITP) as an illustrative example of this approach, given its 30þ year history. The article describes ITP's transpersonal and whole-person focus, its experiential learning emphases, its foundational principles and their imple- mentations, a unique six-facet project for assessing students' transpersonal qualities and transformative changes, and the use of internal and external evidential indicators of its educational effectiveness. The article also addresses issues of transpersonal assessment and research and presents a variety of views of transformative change and spirituality that are relevant to transpersonal psychology. This discussion is useful to anyone wishing to understand how experiential and transpersonal principles and practices might be applied in higher education in order to more effectively foster and serve the full range of human capabilities and potentials—treated in terms of the ''More'' described by William James.

Full reference: Braud, W. (2005). The farther reaches of psi research: Future choices and possibilities. In M. A. Thalbourne & L. Storm (Eds.), Parapsychology in the twenty-first century: Essays on the future of psychical research (pp. 38-62). Jefferson, NC: McFarland.